The common weapon of the yeomen, or foot soldiers, was the long bow.
In case of need, the King could probably muster about ten thousand knights, or armed horsemen, and a much larger force of foot soldiers.
Furthermore, side by side with the feudal cavalry army, he maintained the old English county militia of foot soldiers, in which every freeman was bound to serve.
Defn: A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.
Down to the fourteenth century republican armies were composed of foot soldiers, lightly equipped with sword, shield, and helmet, and some slight defensive armour for leg or breast.
In fact, presently leaving three hundred horse and a considerable number offoot soldiers to garrison the neighbouring strongholds, they transferred the rest of the army from the Upper to the Lower Val d'Arno, to act against Pisa.
From time to time, some of the horsemen, or foot soldiers, detached as scouts, ride back to acquaint Neroweg with their observations.
Foot Soldiers 'Tis all the way to Toe-town, Beyond the Knee-high hill, That Baby has to travel down To see the soldiers drill.
Daoud's Sons of the Falcon will ride in column up the west side of the valley, turn, cut the French knights off from their foot soldiers, and attack them from the rear.
There is nothing between him and us but men fighting one another and a line of foot soldiers we can sweep away with our arrows.
He likewise placed a grand guard of forty cavalry on the road by which we were expected to advance, and some cavalry videts and active foot soldiers at the ford where we must pass on our way to Chempoalla.
We shall see as we proceed that such circular shields or targets constantly appear till the middle of the seventeenth century, borne by foot soldiers, with pikes, halberds, and swords, and sometimes as large as two feet in diameter.
As already remarked, foot soldiers of all ages, down to the middle of the eighteenth century, appear with round shields.
Thus shields were made the handmaid of gunpowder; and, as a matter of fact, they were in use by foot soldiers so late as the middle of the seventeenth century.
During this century and the next these are shown with handsome decorations, but never with heraldry on the face: foot soldiers, perhaps, were not considered heraldically armigerous.
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